The beginning of the end...

Though the calendar boldly states that it is the middle of September it seems to me to be an audacious statement. How could this 90 degree and 70% humidity weather claim to be September?! That's is absolutely outrageous... But I guess since I have moved back into school, waved the summer sea goodbye, and now sit serenely on a window seat overlooking all of campus it is officially time to admit it... So here I am, admitting this fact, I am in my last semester here at University.

The view is the best I've ever had!

So, I'm sitting in my newly air conditioned room (senior year has perks right?), drinking my iced green tea, and pondering what it truly means to have just purchased my cap and gown. To be graduating and leaving behind the days of calling myself a college student. I cannot fully describe what it does to my heart to believe that I leave these days behind. I'm in a paradox of being prepared and unready.

But instead of focusing on the moment I will walk across the stage to accept a degree, I would like to focus on the moments that are happening here and now. Walks to my little town with friends for coffee. Homework fiascos making toast. Walks with Jake when the stars are out. Weekends away with Young Life leaders to start the semester off focused and refreshed. Studying, yes studying, because I may never again have this focused time to simply learn. Nannying the sweet kids I watch here, watching them grow up while I do too.

The end of my college career is coming... but right now I'm enjoying that it is merely the beginning of the end.